I would say Leeds. It depends. Check out the city guides. York seems like a calm ,quiet place to me. Leeds is more metropolitan imo. I may be wrong though. What matters more to you the English course? or Happy factor?

You can judge it by "happy factor" I guess, if they both have equally high standard English degrees.

(Original post by coldbeercoldheart)
Leeds or York for an English degree?

But also for the city, university, shops, night life, halls of residence etc.

I was in the same situation for English. I picked Leeds because it feels a lot more fun and down to earth and nothing is ever far away. English (if you're doing lit) at York also has a foreign language module which I really didn't fancy! Although York is really beautiful. Depends on what you like I guess.